The Mario series has inspired ideas during development of the Zelda series on numerous occasions. Aonuma once explained how Super Mario 3D Land‘s inspired A Link Between Worlds‘ shifting perspectives, and Miyamoto noted that Super Mario 64 acted as the building blocks of Ocarina of Time‘s creation. This time, a recent Famitsu article (reported by Siliconera) with ALBW director…
For years, handheld gaming has been popular amongst both casual and die-hard gamers. However, as the as the market for smartphones and tablets continues to rise, sales of handheld games are experiencing a decline. In an interview with Game Informer, Analyst Michael Pachter from Wedbush Securities tells why:
Part of the beauty of A Link Between Worlds is the fluid movement of the characters and their environment. That was achieved by running the game at sixty frames-per-second. However, ALBW’s high frame rate doesn’t necessarily set the new standard for future Zelda games, as explained by director Hiromasa Shikata in a recent interview with Game…
Seattle-based news station King5 recently sat down with Reggie Fils-Aime, president and COO of Nintendo of America, for an interview. The interview was conducted by Renay San Miguel, and a lot of interesting topics were covered. Reggie discussed the sales of the Wii U, and what Nintendo plans to do in the future to continue…
You might remember the Kickstarter project that funded Pure Nintendo Magazine. You may also remember the recent Operation Moonfall Kickstarter to make Majora’s Mask-themed posters. Turns out that Nate Sylvia–who helped with the Pure Nintendo Magazine Kickstarter–has joined with poster creator Lyndon Willoughby to make a new Sony-focused digital video game magazine called “Let’s Play” (or…
The holiday season is among us, and with all three next-gen (well, now current-gen!) consoles out on the market, they are each going to be competing for the hearts, minds, and cash of consumers. Where is the Wii U’s place in all of this? Forbes writer David M. Ewalt recently conducted an interview with Reggie…
There’s no denying that Nintendo has problems at the moment, as Iwata revealed in their recent financial report. The cause of this surely isn’t the successful 3DS market–the problem lies somewhere else. The Wii U’s poor sales are no secret. Nintendo has been focusing on their 3DS system lately, especially on the Pokémon X/Y software which has been promoted…
I remember when my 12-year-old self first picked up Ocarina of Time. It was the coolest game I had ever played, and it was all I could think about. I managed to incorporate Zelda into all of my seventh-grade writing assignments, and I constantly got in trouble for reading my OoT book instead of the…
As we reported earlier yesterday, David from the German website Gameswelt had an interview with Eiji Aonuma. We gave you a brief snippet of what exactly they talked about, but now we want to take a closer look at it and we haven’t been disappointed. Aonuma’s latest interview leaves a lot of room for speculation. For…
The German website Gameswelt held an interview with Eiji Aonuma last Monday and gave us a small summary of what they talked about. In the interview, he confirmed the existence of a Hero Mode. The difficulty setting won’t be a choice the player can make before starting the game, but requires them to have played…
It was series director Eiji Aonuma himself who wrote the dialogue spoken by The King of Red Lions in The Wind Waker, the talking boat which carries Link across the Great Sea. In a recent interview with 4Gamer (translated by the folks at Zelda Informer), he reveals how becoming a father at the time of development…
Five years. That’s the amount of time that the development of Skyward Sword took Nintendo until its release. That’s pretty long especially if you take a look at other huge franchises where the game developers manage to release one new title each year! Shack News sat down with Eiji Aonuma and dug for the answer…
Yet another interview with Eiji Aonuma from the New York Comic Con has surfaced, this time from IGN. IGN managed to ask Aonuma a wide range of questions, ranging from where A Link Between Worlds fits into the Zelda timeline, to whether the main villain Yuga is Gerudo, among much more. Hit the jump for the latest details.
In many recent Zelda games, there are tons and tons of rupees scattered across the world. Whether they are hidden in chests or gained from defeating enemies, rupees are a huge part of Zelda. But have you noticed how you often accumulate vast amounts of rupees, but then have nothing worthwhile to spend them on?…
The Zelda series is known for its complex puzzles and dungeons. After constant trial and error, you are filled with pride as you finally figure them out and become a hero. Having someone guiding you, telling you what to do and where to go takes the challenge out of the game, and the challenge is…
